Aletheus

Public records, in the open

One search.
Every source accounted for.

Stop opening twelve databases. Type one thing and get every public source’s answer — or its reason for not answering, with the date.

Free, and it asks nothing of you. No account or sign-in. Searches send public inputs to the publishers needed for the lookup. No messages are sent to the person or firm being researched. This server does not write query access logs. On this hosted copy, lookup caches are isolated to your visitor session and removed on a later request after 30 minutes idle. Publisher indexes may be shared.

Accepted formats and examples
SEC filer CIK
cik:320193
CIK with an XBRL concept
cik:320193 us-gaap:Assets
CIK with a fund series
cik:92500 series:S000059856
Firm CRD (use the crd: prefix)
crd:2625
A plain number — asked of both the CIK and the CRD registers, since the number alone does not say which it is
320193
Fund series identifier
S000059856
Fund share-class identifier
C000258071
EDGAR filing index URL
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1976322/000089418926002692/0000894189-26-002692-index.htm
Retirement plan EIN and plan number
ein:12-3456789 plan:001
Legal entity identifier
549300J4KHWZBXDHWL28
Insurance contract filing
cik:832908 accession:0001104659-26-047569 file:333-287190 contract:"MVP VUL Admiral 2"
Insurance contract investment option
cik:832908 accession:0001104659-26-047569 file:333-287190 contract:"MVP VUL Admiral 2" option:S000017648 class:C000048773 fund-cik:823535 fund-accession:0000823535-26-000144
Insurance disclosure rule
rule 498a
Person name as Last, First (an adviser representative, or an enforcement respondent)
Smith, John
Firm or fund name with more than one word
Vanguard Group
Ticker only (the ticker: prefix asks only the ticker sources)
ticker:VFIAX
One word, any case — asked as a ticker, a surname and a firm name, since one word does not say which
spx

Every source, one row each, with its own verdict Dated to the record, never to the visit No legal advice, ever

How it works

  1. Type one thing.

    One box for who you are researching: a firm, a fund, a person, a CRD, a CIK or a ticker.

  2. Every source answers, or says why it did not.

    Each source is listed with its verdict: searched, with the date it was read, or not searched, with the reason. A publisher link is not a search.

  3. Check the original.

    Every record links to the publisher’s own page. Nothing is characterised, ranked or scored, and none of it is legal advice.

Why I built this

Placeholder — the author’s own words go here. Not yet written.